joker97: HDR refers to how an image is processed to make the very bright objects not so bright and very dark objects not so dark; so these pixels fit into a shade of pixel that gives a colour [there are only so many colours a jpg, a video file can store, within a fixed spectrum). once an image is burnt onto bluray i cannot ssee how a TV can recover these details. usually people processing HDR add oddles of colour saturation to top it off.

unless of course in TV HDR refers to making everything more vivid. if that's the case they will turn up the saturation and make badly encoded media very coloured!

or .. umm ... contrast ratio is a good start. but it won't recover any lost dynamic range in the encoding ... and contrast ratio is pretty good already ... and there are only (correct me if wrong) 255 shades of contrast in video encoding and you cannot improve on that however high dynamic a TV's range is. unless it paints its own shades

DarthKermit:

joker97: HDR refers to how an image is processed to make the very bright objects not so bright and very dark objects not so dark; so these pixels fit into a shade of pixel that gives a colour [there are only so many colours a jpg, a video file can store, within a fixed spectrum). once an image is burnt onto bluray i cannot ssee how a TV can recover these details. usually people processing HDR add oddles of colour saturation to top it off.

unless of course in TV HDR refers to making everything more vivid. if that's the case they will turn up the saturation and make badly encoded media very coloured!

or .. umm ... contrast ratio is a good start. but it won't recover any lost dynamic range in the encoding ... and contrast ratio is pretty good already ... and there are only (correct me if wrong) 255 shades of contrast in video encoding and you cannot improve on that however high dynamic a TV's range is. unless it paints its own shades

Ok, so it's another marketing term for image processing. There have been all sorts of hardware/software gadgets over the years marketed in TVs to enhance the video signal in some way or other. This is the latest.

joker97: $$$ ;p considering a decent 50" can be had for $500 on sale, a 100" "technically" is 4 of those ... so ... umm $2,000 ;p

jarledb: I pissed off a Noel Leeming employee the other day by not being sufficiently impressed by the new 4K UHD curved TVs. And by pointing out that there isn't any content to view on them yet. He argued that "its sooo much better".